结婚是人生的头等大事，哪个人不希望自己的婚礼能够办得风风光光。哪个人不想让自己的另一半更加光彩瞩目？于是婚礼上的花费也就成了一个必然。在国内，因为结婚的花费，有多少年轻人在迎接幸福的同时，也变得愁眉不展。下面我们就看看在美国，他们的婚礼花费排行是怎样的？在哪些城市结婚比较昂贵呢？一起来看下文。
New York, where the average cost of a wedding is $65,824, is the most expensive city in the United States to get married but many couples will spend about $27,000 to tie the knot and that doesn't include the cost of the honeymoon.
Most things in Manhattan and the New York metropolitan area are expensive and weddings are no exception, according to the wedding websites TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com, which polled nearly 18,000 US brides who were married in 2011 about the cost of their big day.
Chicago came in second with wedding costs of $53,069, The price tags ranged from a high in Manhattan, which topped the poll of 20 cities to Detroit, where couples spend $27,017 on their nuptials.
The state of West Virginia, where nuptials cost an average of $14,203, was the least expensive wedding location.
"For the first time since 2008, wedding budgets are on the rise," said Carley Roney, cofounder of The Knot. "In 2011, one in five US couples spent more than $30,000, and 11 percent spent more than $40,000 on their weddings," she said.
Anja Winikka, the site editor of TheKnot.com, said the economy could be playing a part in the rising price tags of weddings.
"It probably has to do with attitudes toward economic recovery," she said.
The overall cost of a wedding includes the venue, wedding planner, band and DJ, photographer, florist, videographer, dress, cake, ceremony site and musicians, invitations, limousine, favors, rehearsal dinner and engagement ring.
The venue usually accounts for 50 percent of the budget and the average cost per guest is $196, according to Winikka, who added that 75 percent of couple contribute to the cost of their wedding.
Brides, whose average age was 29, paid about $1,100 for their wedding dress, invited about 140 guests, had four to five bridesmaids and about a 14-month engagement, according to the survey.
The average fee for the wedding planner was $1,753. Future brides are also planning further ahead, some more than 12 months in advance of the wedding. A hopeful 16 percent of potential brides started planning their big day before their prospective husband put a ring on their finger.
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